Apparently the Libs were pushing a generally similar bill a few years back (a fact that will surely be brought up by proponents of the new law), but this one goes even further in that it adopts "an exceptionally broad definition of customer name and address information".

I would urge readers to take in all of the Geist article--contrast especially NDP MP Don Davies measured response to Conservative taunting over this bill (Its for the children! Why do you hate children?) with the Libs knee-jerk "metoo-ism".

Poor Libs. These days they fight when they should make a deal, and they run when they should fight. You'd think that Iggy and Co. would have figured out that appealing to Conservative voters hasn't worked, and that they are now in danger of losing a good portion of their own base. Maybe Ms. Krieber should save a place for me on the other side of the aisle.

Maybe Ms. Krieber should save a place for me on the other side of the aisle.

I don't know what you stubborn progressive liberals are waiting for. Having the New Democrats ahead of the Liberals in the polls would would take the heat off them and give them a chance to actually rebuild. Besides that, most of you have more in common with the NDP than the Liberals.

And just a comment.. from my own blog. Once government obtains license to do something for a specific reason, their tendancy is to expand that license for less compelling reasons.

Witness random arrest and detention to check for impaired driving. That was authorized by our Courts because of the carnage on our highways from drunk drivers. We now have arbitrary detention to check for seatbelts.

Think about that.. and ask yourselves, what else might the government not like me looking at?

I completely agree with McClelland (pauses to wash mouth out with soap). I have long believed we need a two Party system in this country, a center-right Party and a Labour-cum-Marxist Party. The Liberals lost their chance to be the center-right Party forty years ago with the election of the Trudeau/Chretien gang.

I wish it were that simple that you could switch parties and find one that's more honest or principled. Liberals screw over issues for votes, but it's not as though the NDP are immune from this behaviour (There's carbon tax and the long gun registry) or the Conservatives (balanced budgets, the Senate, open and honest government -- the Parliamentry Budget Office was created by the Conservatives, but they've been at way with it almost from the start). I'm not cynical enough to say that there's no difference between the parties, but that on the principled thing -- none of them will sacrifice votes over an issue.

I have long believed we need a two Party system in this country, a center-right Party and a Labour-cum-Marxist Party.

Yeah, that's what we need, to swing back and forth between two extremes. One government builds, and then when the next one gets into power they dismantle. Or worse both parties edging ever so together that on some issues they're indistinguishable.

I just know the NDP would have no idea how to deal with the corporate oligarchies that are permanently allied against them and would tear them to bits. They'd just stand there, like deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming car.

That's what they need the Liberals for...to do the dirty work. If that disappears, they're just going to become Tony Blair's Third Way...at best. Or the Democratic Party...*barf*

I wish it were that simple that you could switch parties and find one that's more honest or principled.

It is that simple. The federal NDP is more honest and principled* than either the Conservatives or Liberals. Whether or not this is simply a result of never having tasted power is something that can only be determined once they've tasted it.

You're just prejudiced against the NDP; which is odd considering you're more politically aligned with them.

No, I'm not. I'm not a rabid anti-capitalist, I believe in more transparency, not necessarily regulation, I'm not against trade, I think identity politics is retarded and I think we should have the smallest, leanest government for what we expect it to do.

Wow Oakville Crackpot, you are more delusional than I first thought. I was making fun of you not the "ruling party".

What bizarre rhetoric and self-reference that you utilize. Is your caseworker aware that you refer to yourself as "the ruling party" and "the conservative party" and you claim to once be married to Michael Ignatieff?

what party is propping up the CPC and polling the worst in over 100 years?

BCL, RH are both upset regarding Bill C 47 being a BAD policy.

The clown car brigade instead of addressing the post are left with NOTHING to do but make personal insults. Truly GR you appear more desperate and bitter with every post when you ignore the subject matter of the Host blogger.

Were it not for the conservative posters this blog would be deader than Iggy's chances in the next election. Just look at all the zeros BCL puts up when we're not around. Worse than the friggin Leafs. Heck, I should be paid for wasting my time and talent here.